Nutrition and health of older people

Schlenker, Eleanor D.; Feurig, J. S.; Stone, Louisa; Ohlson, Margaret A.; Mickelsen, Olaf

doi:10.1093/ajcn/26.10.1111

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“…72,76,80,81 Diets of adequate nutritional quality and quantity have been shown to prevent the occurrence of obesity and malnutrition, which are precursors to impaired health and functioning. 79,[82][83][84] Hence, older adults who abstain from smoking, engage in physical activity, and sustain quality dietary habits may improve their health span and quality of life. In this sense, the predictors of successful aging are in many ways under personal control.…”

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Lifestyle and Successful Aging: An Overview

Franklin

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2008

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

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Since the 1950s, the phrase successful aging has been used increasingly to represent the factors and conditions underlying healthy aging and is often attributed to the healthy elderly. In this short review, the authors discuss the transformation in the social theories of aging that allowed for the evolution of successful aging as a construct and ultimately a theoretical basis for investigation. Because of the multifactorial nature of the psychosocial and biomedical domains, there is no clear consensus on the definition of successful aging or its determinants. What is clear, however, is that successful aging is related to the human health span, or healthy life expectancy. Moreover, the accumulating information from multidimensional studies suggests that many age-associated changes in physiological and cognitive functioning can be explained by such modifiable lifestyle factors as smoking, physical activity, and nutrition choice. The evidence presented supports the promotion of a healthy lifestyle as an effective strategy for successful aging.

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Lifestyle and Successful Aging: An Overview

Franklin

Tate

2008

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

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“…Finally, aging itself appears to have a negative effect on intake of fat, saturated fatty acids, and calories 5 . The concern that has been voiced about chronic undernutrition and its possible relation to health and health maintenance 6–8 has led to new policy recommendations on nutrition for elderly 9…”

Section: Nutrition and The Elderlymentioning

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The Elderly, Undernutrition, and Pharmacokinetics

Lamy

1983

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…In one, done in California, 350 of a total of 577 persons, aged 50-89 years, had been followed over a 4-year period [2]. In Michigan, of 100 women between 40 and 75 years of age originally examined by Ohlson et al, in 1948 [1], only 27 survived in 1972 when Schlenker and associates [3] re-166 Lowenstein *States with a median PIR below the overall median value of 1.39 were designated "Low Income Ratio States" (South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, West Virginia). States with a median PIR equal to or greater than the overall PIR were designated "High Income Ratio States" (Michigan, California, Washing ton, Massachusetts, New York).…”

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Nutritional status of the elderly in the United States of America, 1971-1974.

Lowenstein¹

1982

Journal of the American College of Nutrition

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In the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) there were 3,479 persons aged 65-74 years corresponding to 12,773,000 in this age group in the total population. Presented here are major findings on the nutritional status of this age group in respect to 1) dietary intake (based on a 24-hour recall) and dietary frequency, 2) selected biochemical and hematological tests, 3) prevalences of clinical signs associated with deficiencies of nine essential nutrients, and 4) selected anthropometric measurements. These findings will be presented by sex, two racial groups (black and white), and two income groups (poverty index ratio (PIR) below and above unity). Some correlations between clinical signs and dietary intake comparing persons with signs and those without signs are shown. Some trends between dietary intake and biochemical values, on the one hand, and biochemical values and clinical signs, on the other hand, will be touched upon. The findings are discussed in relation to dietary adequacy and nutritional risk of the different subgroups. Some paradoxical results are discussed and the need for urgent research on the so-called secondary or conditioned deficiencies specifically in this age group are pointed out.

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Nutrition and health of older people

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Lifestyle and Successful Aging: An Overview

Lifestyle and Successful Aging: An Overview

The Elderly, Undernutrition, and Pharmacokinetics

Nutritional status of the elderly in the United States of America, 1971-1974.

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